Among some birds, siblings can be powerful role models that can even overshadow parental influence. “A lot of learning occurs from parents because offspring and parents spend so much time together. However, the juvenile birds’ solution strategies were actually more strongly influenced by how their siblings and the non-parent adults around them solved the puzzle. Of the other learners in each group, about 94 percent learned to solve the puzzle with the help of their siblings. “Such species are less vulnerable because they have many different role models from which to get cultural and socially learned information.”